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Mars in fiction. H. G. Wells 's The War of the Worlds, depicting Martians invading Earth, is one of the most influential works of science fiction. [ 1] Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. Trends in the planet's portrayal have largely been influenced by advances in ...
Clifford Donald Simak ( / ˈsɪmək /; [ 1] August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. [ 2][ 3] The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, [ 4] and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram ...
Indigenous futurisms is a movement in literature, visual art, comics, video games, and other media that expresses Indigenous perspectives of the future, past, and present in the context of science fiction and related sub-genres. Such perspectives may reflect Indigenous ways of knowing, oral history, historical or contemporary politics, and ...
Red Planet is a 1949 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about students at boarding school on the planet Mars. It represents the first appearance of Heinlein's idealized Martian elder race (see also Stranger in a Strange Land ). The version published in 1949 featured a number of changes forced on Heinlein by Scribner's, since it was ...
The Mars trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries. Ultimately more utopian than dystopian, the story focuses on egalitarian, sociological, and ...
The colonization of Mars is the proposed process of establishing and maintaining control of Martian land for exploitation and the possible settlement of Mars. [ 1] Most colonization concepts focus on settling, but colonization is a broader ethical concept, [ 2] which international space law has limited, [ 3] and national space programs have ...
Invasion literature (also the invasion novel or the future war genre [1]) is a literary genre that was popular in the period between 1871 and the First World War (1914–1918). The invasion novel was first recognised as a literary genre in the UK, with the novella The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer (1871), an account of a ...
Website. www .maryturzillo .com. Mary A. Turzillo (born 1940) [1] is an American science fiction writer noted primarily for short stories. She won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 2000 for her story "Mars is No Place for Children," [2] [3] published originally in Science Fiction Age. Her story "Pride," [2] published originally in Fast ...